Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with this situation, Tommy D'Alesandro and others took steps to get Jack Pollack into line. Two of Pollack's lieutenants recently got good political jobs, and Pollack's son-in-law was made assistant city solicitor...
...achieves success not through industry or intelligence but through sheer brass. As Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin, Guinness is a washerwoman's son who gets ahead in the grimy town of Bursley. In grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list to the fanciest ball of the year, where he boldly dances with the hostess, the Countess of Chell (Valerie Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club...
...City Solicitor Frank J. McKenna said, "I certainly don't agree with their interpretation of Catholic doctrine, but they do have civil rights...
Dean Watson yesterday cleared up the confusion surrounding next year's Combined Charities drive by reaffirming the University's policy that no solicitor other than those from the Combined Charities would be allowed to visit students' rooms...
Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...